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Timehri North relocation plan lacks socioeconomic life

Jul 28, 2013 News

 

 

The absence of a socioeconomic plan for Timehri North residents in Government’s relocation plan for the community to Yarrowkabra is troubling, said Daniel Fraser, Chairman of the Timehri North Development Council, during a press conference on Friday at Sidewalk Café.
Fraser said that Government is offering Timehri North residents, who are squatting on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIAC) property, 350 acres of land aback of Yarrowkabra.
“If you look at the plan it doesn’t speak of the social and economic life of the people,” he said.
After occupying Timehri North for numerous years and with blessing from a Government department, residents have built proper houses, established businesses and even built churches. Many are gainfully employed at the same airport whose runway expansion is dependent on their relocation.
According to Fraser, Government is extricating residents from an area where they have developed their social life and economic earning abilities and want to place them “in a strange location that has no electricity, no water, no telephone, and no drains. The basic infrastructure is not there.”
Fraser said that Government has made no attempt in contacting residents to discuss the relocation plan. As such, residents are peeved and puzzled about their future.
He recalled that since last year, Ministers of Housing and Water and Transport and Hydraulics, Irfaan Ali and Robeson Benn respectively were expected to setup a Multi-stakeholder Committee to deal with the relocation.
“Now if you are dealing with relocating persons then you need to have interactions with those persons to know what’s going on. We have a document that has been circulated by CJIAC as to the relocations. It is one that falls short of the social aspects of the relocation plan,” he added.
Fraser stressed that residents did not have an input in the relocation plan even though they are the main stakeholders.

 

 

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